Chapter 342: Released Files (Part 1)

[File Number: 003 - Bloodline of All Things]

[Cracked]

[This file originates from the office of 'the person behind it all' and is only accessible to Category A personnel. The right to destroy this document belongs to (hidden).]

Welcome, Mr. Roy.

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—Narration by Survivor 001, Katherine (Audio Version)—

Um, hello, Mr. Roy.

No, no, no need for any special explanations... Yes, because my characteristic is in the mental realm, I became one of the lucky ones after the collapse of the Mirror of Eternal Dreams. Since we both understand how absurd what happened inside was, let's not waste too much time on "how I survived."

You only know everything about me, while my understanding of you… though not entirely clear, given enough time, after I've analyzed the evolution of almost countless nodes, your fatal flaw will be beyond the control of even those three candidates. No, no, this is certainly not a threat; I'm simply stating a fact.

Now, as for why I was able to bypass all the defense systems and reach the Americas headquarters, you seem to have discovered something beyond your comprehension. Yes, but not entirely; good luck isn't the right word. Understanding "mindset"? That would be a more accurate description.

Well, besides the three candidates, I also gained some understanding of aspects that I don't usually have access to.

Through the lingering mental turmoil of the dead, I've witnessed far too many absurd tales to be etched into history. And you, the great operative Roy, are approaching an extremely dangerous tipping point, where any further exploration will mark the end of an era. This would be a tragic outcome for humanity's resistance against the forbidden, yet you remain a truly worthy hero. Therefore, I've come here… simply to tell you that you will receive something only a select few within the Eoubs have ever received: their complete story.

As you told me at the beginning, the higher beings were already on guard when you first attempted to swap parallel worlds. Every operative on the candidate list couldn't resist making some changes to the timeline—most just wanting to see the taboo facts clearly, but Dr. NNa had already buried them deep enough in hell.

So when you develop your own characteristics to a critical point, you start investigating clues about the people behind the scenes and the plot settings, etc., and they know that you won't give up easily.

I will give you the clearest and simplest answer possible.

Li Lin, Yu Jianchu, and Yu Yu were among the candidates who were eliminated.

But this truth will never be written down by the people in this cosmic web, after all, it was a fact that the person behind it decided early in the creation of Eoubs, and he still insists on this decision.

Activists like us are incredibly curious about this. I don't know which thing terrifies me more, and I'll never understand who else is on the shortlist. There are 30 spots in total—a truly peculiar number. Excluding the three full-time employees, that still leaves 27.

Okay, I know you're eager to know more.

Let's start by talking about Mr. Li Lin.

He died 27 days after He Yu left the Mirror of Eternal Dreams. He died in a temple he had built himself. Well, I forget the exact location, but I can tell you it was formed on the North American plate and was the largest temple at that time, five miles wide at its widest point, with all buildings eight stories high, and a high-efficiency passenger elevator in front of the main entrance for visitors. It was designed…very much like Eoubs' experimental base, and capable of handling everything, including the residents' housing.

They can certainly live here, work here, or even die here, without even needing to leave the temple grounds.

Perhaps this is the world Li Lin wanted to see.

(The audio here is fluctuating and has not yet been cracked.)

To be honest, I don't remember the night the temple fell completely. Too many memories are swirling in my head, a jumbled mess. Sometimes, fragments flash by, showing... trillions upon trillions of people, all chained together, living on the brink of death without dignity.

In that situation, you simply couldn't tell which piece of flesh belonged to whom. The children lived under the control of that flesh and blood, and most of their organs had been eroded or removed from their bones.

It's okay, of course I'm fine. It's just that I haven't thought about these things for a long time.

The temple wasn't the biggest problem, but Li Lin's subsequent experiments... were rather absurd.

He dragged away many injured residents, and then... implanted the source sample into them. Those humans—if you could still call them human. Many bizarre organs were sewn into their bodies, some even fitted with bodies that didn't belong to any creature you'd ever seen—they were terrifying monsters far beyond absurdity and evil.

They kept pouring in from hell, waves of creatures that couldn't be called living appearing one after another. That night, the world governed by the Heavenly Gospel experienced an internal collapse. Later, I discovered Li Lin's cultivation basement, inside... there was a child who looked similar to Yu Jianchu, only seven years old, tied to an experimental table, her whole body—

(Sound of vomiting)

I'm so sorry.

Even now, those memories still seem stained with blood, but I'll continue.

Yu Yu didn't say much before finding Li Lin sitting on the throne. What happened next was beyond my expectations—I thought these two devils would have some earth-shattering battle, but nothing happened.

The process... was actually quite simple.

Yu Yu simply stepped forward, slashed open Li Lin's stomach with a dagger, and then hanged him outside the temple window with his intestines.

During the process of dying, the person continued to laugh wildly, shouting that she had succeeded. Of course, she could choose to take revenge, but the bloodline of all things will never perish.

27 hours later, he was still laughing uncontrollably.

So Yu Yu ultimately had no choice but to put him down, remove all his internal organs, cut each one into pieces, and burn the rest to ashes. He kept talking throughout the whole process, but I don't want to recall those details.

You can't imagine how crazy this person has become. He seems to want to salvage everything, but it's too late.

He transferred the projections of all humans in the present realm into the Mirror of Eternal Dreams. Once assimilation is complete, do you know what will happen?

—With just a single thought, anyone or anything on this planet will be annihilated.

However, someone always has to do the right thing.

Regardless of what Li Lin intends to do, and regardless of whether the bloodline of all things has been erased or not, Yu Yu's decision is correct—that's all we can say.